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I'm putting aside fiction for a while, I recently started "Chaos: Making a new science" 
by James Gleick, it's a pop science intro for Chaos Theory but a well-researched one which doesn't fall into quackery. Also thanks to our !mathematics friends for their textbook recommendations
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Just finished reading Letters From a Stoic by Seneca. Could essentially be summarized that you should live a modest life while wisdom-maxxing as much as possible because the only thing worth overdoing is philosophy. Well, his definition of philosophy is to help teach people to live their lives in a wise and stoic way. a life of moderation and acceptance of the situation you're in. He spends a good chunk of his time dabbing on grammar nerds, philologists, rhetoricians and Epicurus (rival school). The three former because they're "philosophers" who lost their way, the latter because they think the purpose in life is to be happy. In some letters he gives vibes of a proto-Ted Kaczynski, claiming that everything was better before they had luxury, and you lived with a more spiritual mindset. He also dabs on neurodivergents, liberal arts and STEMlords (geometry, specifically). Claiming they are min-maxxing into useless knowledge while you should be experiencing and learning a wide variety of things, most especially philosophy.
Now I'm reading the bible, NRSV edition which is a scholarly one. Tried reading KJV in parallel too but I got ESL-filtered. Just got through the five books of moses.
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!sophistry thoughts?
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my thpught is stop pinging every other shit
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!pinggrouplovers look at this !r-slurs
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Thoughts are the contemplation
of the indecisive. The strong 
of mind act
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I think Seneca is worth a read or two.
Was Seneca or Augustus the one who got cucked by his wife and went "life goes on" and just ignored her?
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Oh look at that the philosopher is disparaging about people having a
special interest 
if it's not philosophy while also saying it's completely fine to have philosophy as your 
special interest 
because philosophy isn't just useless knowledge 
COPE
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Seneca sounds fun
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IIRC this is the guy who wrote about having ascetic lifestyle but then he said "it's also good to fit in to your community" and used that as an excuse to act like every other rich Roman. There was a type of small table that was the latest fad. He wrote about how terrible it is to waste money on something so worthless but of course he bought one for himself because he didn't his peers to think he was a weirdo or something.
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